Word: compassionate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since the audience was composed not of bored parents at a school play but of participants in an eternal mystery, all must have shared the shepherd's compassion.
When pity finally traps him into becoming engaged, he gets into another panic and runs away again. But while running it occurs to him that compassion is the better part of pity. He returns to make up, but finds that the despairing lady has already thrown herself over a cliff...
The book is an improvement on its forerunners: Dreiser is no longer content to draw a caricature with his fist; he attempts to paint a portrait, and regards his villain with some compassion. Cowperwood is loyal to the wife he does not love, and sincerely devoted to his mistress. He...
Shoeshine was intended as a furious and moving indictment of a postwar society, and of a world, in which such things could happen. It is all of that, and more. It makes the oversimplified diagnosis and prescription of most social tracts look like so much complacent blueprint. It is filled...
Hardheaded patience and firmness the West will need in dealing with Russia; but understanding and compassion it will need too. To consider Russia "with the heart" means to sense two stories-the story of her great warm people, and the story of the cold bureaucracy of lies and murder which...